i'm with the united services. i think that sam coal had to leave. but i'll echo many of the things that richard said s c i u has taken the position the way that the process has been taken out with the necessary parts of project many of them are in the approval process was not consistent with second that we should be considering all those things together. i would say that includes the legislation i'm glad the legislation has been rejected and improved but that process should have started with the historical presentation commission. and not this commission because they were clearly historical impacts when it was more swooping. it seems somewhat illogical it can't is have a historical back but it's not impacting us i don't know maybe there's been another rewrite that's eliminated this contradiction but implicit can we have a process we know even in the minor two month delay there's been a things that have been learned and if we could actually have a authenticity full process with community full input from the bodies of the planning department at once t

on above the of the united states positively services i want to welcome you to the 19th luna celebrationthe 7 stamp in the series we're truly honored to be hosting this selection celebration let me begin by thanking the white crane dance group and the hosts of the performance. they've helped us today only today but year after year so what a wonderful vaccination and a applause. you'll be meeting our guest and other people a few people in the audience. first someone who i work with frequently is san francisco marketing manager is martha she's right there. martha played a large roll in the success and she is retiring at the end of the month for or after 2 seven years of dedication so thank you very much martha. also in the audience today are jeff managing director of the investment and a doris the hilton director of community affairs. thank you, again, for supporting the lunar event and, of course, we're honored to have the artist who designed this today mr. kim. where are you right there (clapping) thank you for sharing our beautiful art with the world and through this lunar event. i want

i always in every year look forward to joining our united states postal service and you've begun u done a great job and to mr. showing to the recreational director thank you. again. this is the second series of the 7th series i look forward to this day because it signals just that fresh beginning seeing another about how far designed stamp and as both decreases said earlier it's an exception of our american culture and asia culture. i want to thank again sherman for your leadership at oc a that we take pride in not only a recreational subdivision e celebration this is national not international and i'm reminded again with allen's remarks we have a history. sometimes, it wasn't as bright as we wanted it to be but those days it's brighter and brighter i get to lead the city and a traffic internationally all over the world we have is strong citizenry that reflects our cultures. everyday i get to serve the city of this city but represent them in international settings pr i want to emphasis one greeting this year because i told anita elimination to do that. when you intermediate people in ch

what a dream job this is, that the united postal service has given me a unique opportunity to use myrtwork to showcase my culture to the world. >> why you? >> to this day, i do not know. i was asked to come up with a, concept -- someone, a talented designer, called me -- i was working on the koi, and in the process of that project, they asked me by the way, they are renewing the second series of the lunar new year's stamp. and they wanted me to come up with a concept, and that is how it got started. >> so you do the stamps. were any rejected? >> i followed the tradition, using the animal from the chinese zodiac, and the first stamp was the year of the rat, so i did lots of drawings of rats and i thought something was missing from that concept. and so i came up with an idea with the encouragement of the art director, that i wanted to use the traditional element of the lunar new year, to tell a much more enriching story of the celebration of the lunar new year. that is why i used the traditional lantern. and for the year of the horse, i used the drum. they are the iconic instrument tha

when the speakers were talking about long-term services and support. our unit at the department of aging adult services is the central door for getting that information. i want to give everyone a friendly reminder about that service as well as some updates about have happened in the unit. our unit has expanded particularly arnl traditional care services. first i want to give everybody our number again. you can reach us by e-mail. dos eas at sf.org. we providing services to seniors and family members and other professionals as well. when case manager social workers need, when they need help trying to figure out how to serve a consumer or client, they call us as well. we are staffed with licensed clinical social workers with masters degree in social work. we are not your average everyday phone service. we do provide a robust type of assessment as well as intake. the in takes that we do are in home support services. adult protective services, home delivered meals for seniors, the community living fund which is a special case management fund to prevent institutiona

an automated tool, facebook has created a short personalized video highlights movie, for the united service organizations celebrated its 73rd anniversary yesterday. the u-s-o provides services to u-s troops and military families. this year, the san francisco international airport location is also celebrating 48 years of service. u-s-o-s-f-o has operated all day, every day since its inception.and as of 20- 13, it had over 27-thousand visits. there are two other centers in the bay area. san jose international airport and the travis airport base. it seems we all know someone with cancer. in the future, those numbers are projected to increase. radically. it's a chilling announcement by the world health organization. cancer cases are expected to increase 57% over the next 20 years. that's mostly blamed on a growing, aging population. the report says that new cancer cases will rise from around 14-million in 20- 12.to an annual rate of 22- million by 20-34. health officals say people have to get more committed to preventing the disease in the first place. with the basic advice to stop smoking.drin

it is the most extensive chinese new year celebrated anywhere in the united states services go chinatown began three weeks of the new year festivities. taking it all off with the flower market there. these weeks are the most important of the year for china towns local flower vendors to help families carry on tradition does not list them. it's late july and august. an hour. as local chinese prepare to make visits to relatives during the holidays. the fair fourth of the opportunity to buy after the vocals just like for brown bags of oranges for just two dollars. this stands sold six hundred bags into our twenties me and him cuz i keep coming back to good health good luck and of course prosperity. businesses also grist for the use of gold fish sellers purchasing it because one we purchased all means. so we want to purchase look back at our house and we want welcome to our family into our home the interior a walk to chinatown are completely packed. more than four hundred thousand people are attending. which is important events from nowhere to land around eighteen thousand people live in san

the department has received xhments comments from the services united workers west expressing opposition and they have received a letter in support. the staff preliminary recommendations for the approval that concludes my presentation. thank you >> any questions for staff before the sponsor begins? commissioner matsuda >> i have a question thank you very much for your presentation. i had a question about this do we ask about legislation? that's referred to in our materials on page 3 for foil number 0359 pending legislation before the board. it goes on to explain what this is why didn't this piece of legislation every dom come before the board. i had to go to the planning commissions agenda to get the summary and as noted i made a comment about where the h pc is on there could you explain that to me why this commission was never aware and never formerly informed of this legislation when it clearly fits into what we do >> i'm going to defer this to those city attorney. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm the deputy city attorney. under the carry it says referral to following matters be s

service ended 2013 with a $354 million loss. it was the 19th quarter of losses out of the last 21. now, the financial pinch the unitedervice is under is a result of the postal accountability enhancement act, passed by congress in the lame duck session in 2006, which forces the postal service to prepare retiree health care for 75 years into the future in a ten-year window. in other words, about $6 billion a year on their bottom line that they have to meet for future operations. who the hell runs their businesses like that? republicans have been gunning to nail the post office for a long time. they want it to be forced into bankruptcy so they can privatize everything they can get their hands on. on thursday, the senate homeland security and government affairs committee approved a bipartisan bill which would grant the postal service more operating flexibility and provide relief for some of its workforce-related obligations, meaning the prepay what i was just talk about. the bill will eventually head to the senate for debate. tom carper of delaware released a statement reacting to the financial loss in supporting the leg

the united states, and in particular, as a veteran who gave 12 years of his life to the united states submarine service, i take great offense at people who take an oath and then make absolutely no effort for live up to that oath, and in fact, flagrantly flaunt it. >> thank you. >> call the vote? >> all of those in favor of commissioner renne to serve as vice chair for a second term? say aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> and the vote is unanimous, congratulations commissioner renne you are once again the vice chair. >> easy job with mr. hur as the chair. >> and it is. >> as it was with you. >> and so, beginning at our next meeting, commissioner hur, you will be presiding, and you will be second in command once again. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and for me, it has been a lot of fun. and i have certainly enjoyed it. and found it very educational. to say the least. >> and if i may say, how much i have enjoyed working with you. >> i enjoy working with you mr. st. croix. >> okay, so, we have an issue before us, regarding existing and potential litigation, and it is and it has and it appears on the a

, every unit of our, you know, of the fish and wildlife service and their refuges and every unit of the forest service and every unit of the b.l.m., we're going to be pretty busy and you know, be embroiled in a lot of local controversy. premature believe, is in that comments close this week and the process will come to a conclusion, comments will be weighed and a decision will be put out for final comment and it's also at this point, you know, being added to a bill that's going nowhere. with that, i yield back the plans of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: i yield to the gentleman. mr. hastings: i want to clarify something that's been said here by anymy friend the ranking member that this administration has issued a veto threat. they have not issued a veto threat. they have said, and i'll just read the last line of their statement, administration policy, it says the administration looks forward to working with congress to enact sportsman and recreation legislation that addresses the concerns raised with certain pr

lunar year is important for the united states postal service we provide the service everyday and recognize the red lights of the diversity. in keeping with this tradition we introduced this lunar system in 18998 we celebrate the year of the rabbit and dragon and snake all during the respective years during the chinese calendar. today, we pay tribute to the horse on january 31st, 2014. people during the lunar year they have the traits and this is good buses. horses are popper and cleaver and refuse to be recognized to failure they can be stubborn and hot termed. the key for horses is to find the balance to exercise control. with this new stamp we wish good future for everybody and hope it will bring the best out in all of us. in keeping with that hope this year's stamp is like the altercation of the drums. additional the drums are dictated for prosperity and working with the art directors two element were incorporated clarence paper cut design and the which they think so character was drawn. the inindicating cut flow of the lines symbolizes force. once you see them you'll agree those colorf

i use and get the service unit on sunday and somehow never proverb cracking up and i'm much more confident the home of supper to the psyche of the country but come on this incident would write about. the second phase of the beaumont started on december fourteen from the dodgy up the completion of the first phase of four hundred and fifty three miles from wet to the capital budget to fund province. what was going this week about the sun's provinces to discover if another boss david got me a lot as bombs again brought international attention the issue of missing buses. indeed the saudis in the stomach really great. in an isolated area. activists allege some one hundred and eighteen bodies have become from the last days. given that the song. the suspect these bodies all those who have been in the in the adopted by delegates agencies from the insurgency hit province then time magazine's list of most influential people than that of the fortune five hundred s but i guess the man argued on the peninsula it done. as india's most corrupt on monday but the owner of two people having kids you on one

one company says it is trying to decide whether to sell or spin off to shareholders it oilfield services unitwhich has about two point $2 billion in annual sales, and finally, the menswear business, joseph a bank it's get another offer from men's wearhouse, higher than the last one, so these are rallying. and it is said that the stock could go higher in joseph a bank drops the eddie bauer offer. >> carl icahn is using fighting words in his latest letter, saying the ebay paypal division should be spin -- spun off. he wrote, we believe in any sane business environment, these directors should resign immediately from the ebay board either out of decency or sheer embarrassment out of the exposure of their self-serving activity. we are talking about the man this letter,enned carl icahn. always good to talk to you. we know you have taken aim specifically at some, including mark andreessen. why do you say they are not working in the interest of ebay? >> well, i have been through a lot of these over the last 30 or 40 years. i sent the letter, and i mean it. i have never seen one as blatant as this. yo

we live in an economy in the united states that is largely one of services and international property. it is not grounded on factories making stuff. you have far fewer manufacturing jobs. we have this set of numbers that do good jobs. idea output even though most of us probably didn't know this. but last summer, the u.s. economy became $400,000,000,000 bigger because the bureau of economic analysis having recognized this point tried to factor in things like the int intellectual property in an iphone or lady gaga in all of the work that goes into is a song that sells millions of copies. it's hard to quantify that stuff. >> for all of the flaws they have, how else can the government make decisions? how does the federal reserve. >> two things going on, these usesfus numbers for a very limited set of policy makers at the highest levels of government whether it's the u.s. government or the chinese government or any government to understands what's going on for the system. right? i think you can make an argument there is such a thing called macro economic policy and there is such a thing as

the united states public health service is where the surgeon general lives.this is an organization that started with president adams. over the last few decades, our decidedans have to make them an instant admiral. that denigrates the service of those young men and women who serve 20 or 30 years and have the aspiration to be the surgeon general in the service. all of a sudden, you can have the job anymore because we're going to give it to someone else. why is the public health service allowed to do that? old and the36 years cofounder and president of the advocacy group, doctors for america founded in 2000 and 8. his lack of experience has raised concerns among republicans. guest: it should not just be republicans. it should be all of us. that has young lawyer graduated from harvard a few years ago and has done a couple of things and nominate him to be a supreme court justice or u.s. attorney. why not? i've spoken to a lot of reporters. they say because they have not had the experience. i said, that is exactly why. hy is public health any less important? he may

favor our kids over russian kids or watermelon kids well according to the institute for human services in the united states one reason why americans turn to international adoption is because they're looking for children with specific characteristics they usually prefer children who are young children who are in good physical and psychological health and children of preferred gender and race and the supply of those children i'm sorry for putting it crudely in the united states is limited can i just respond to that that you're completely outdated factual picture of international adoption almost all the kids that americans are now adopting from abroad or older kids who have suffered significant damage who have very significant emotional and physical disabilities that constitutes almost the entire population so no days world americans are not going abroad to get healthy infants because actually infants are not being placed anymore kids are almost always over a year and they've almost always suffered very severe damage. yet if you look at the most frequent complaints by the american adoptive parents in r

we live in an economy the united states of services. it's not grounded on factories making stuff. that's a huge source of political, social and economic concern. we have a set of numbers. they don't do a good job of app turing intellectual or ideal outlets. most of us didn't notice that of the bureau of economics became bigger, because they tried to factor in intellectual property. or lady gaga, and the work going in to sell. >> for all the flaws, how do they decide how much to stimulate the economy or what to pull back. >> there are two things going on. useful numbers, whether it's the u.s. government or the chinese government to under-stan what is going op for the system. there i think you can have an argument for macroeconomic policy. whereby some of the numbers are useful. if you listen, not many are listening. one of the things said was even though the federal reserve said they'd shift their policies based on the headline unemployment rate, she said that rate is less useful. it doesn't capture underemployed our part of time unemployed. >> we saw how the official establishment

aid for their services is something that may should make us suspect the institution but in the united states there is also a large population of children eligible for adoption around one hundred twenty thousand why would america still prefer to pay so much money to struggle with bureaucracy which is a major issue when they can adopt a child from nearby institution there are lots of americans who do adopt from our foster care system and which is where most of our kids are not in institutions they're in foster care there are americans who adopt from foster care and there are americans who go abroad to adopt and some people do both and my own belief is that the united states should not focus solely on the best interest of quote its own children i think our policy as this pending bill in congress would make our policy should be that all unpaired kids everywhere have a basic human right to get a home and i don't see why we should favor our kids over russian kids or watermelon kids well according to the institute for human services in the united states one reason why americans turn to inter

>> short. >> the secret service doesn't have a metric to measure here in the united states it isn't readily used however the secret service does support any technology which would insist in the security of that. >> the chip and pin technology that is deployed in europe has been much more successful in reducing fraud. >> it could give another level of security which again makes it more difficult for criminals to get at the data. i am not saying that it's the solution. of course there is not a 100% solution, technological soluti solution. >> is the better technology than the 1970s era of the magnetic swipe card; correct? >> that is a 30 year technology. >> how about you? >> i agree with mr. noonan and the other panelists there are other challenges as well using their phones for payment you are using your computer and laptop per payment so having that extra security on the card itself would be helpful but we have to look at other things as well. >> going back to you, chair ramirez there would be a standard that we can't pick winners and losers on technology so what would be sort of a concrete

governance is also important to me because it is part of the united states postal service operates asa monopoly. and i believe that the substitute amendment that was put before us last week puts about monopoly in charge of setting its own rates. and we just don't do that. we have to protect the ratepayers and consumers. i used the analogy last week of an electrical utility. we never let them set up their own electrical rates.

united kingdom. the online payment service does not share details with merchants. >> gm new ceo getting a pay package is 55% more than the man she replaced. >> turns out certain colors are off limb writs to phone carriers. a judge sided with t-mobile after a recent trademark suchlt a texas judge ordered at and t to stop using plum color over fierce it's too sim already to t-mobile's color. they argue about these things. here are the logos side by side. t-mobile argued logos might be confusing to customers. aio released a statement saying the decision will have no affect on advertising plans. >> virgin atlantic testing a device that uses facial recognition to identify a customer, learn his name and dietary requirements before he opens his mouth. >> well, coming up here a famous san francisco dog gets a makeover >> a celebration planned for this doggy. one of the besis thaa is that millions of people will qualify for financial assistance. it's important to remember that the lower your annual income, the greater financial assistance you will receive. enroll today at coveredca.com. >>> rising reservoirs

units. putting those become in service is critical. we also see a city that continues to grow. >> the fire department could face a fine of $850,000 for breach of contract but he is recommending a smaller penalty of $150,000 the e.m.s. director said a few minutes ago that he is not aware of any loss of life because of the slow response of the. >> developing news in napa where a young mother and her boyfriend are expected to appear in court to face charges in the brutal debt of her daughter, three yield kayleigh slusher. the little girl was found dead in her bed on saturday. our reporter, katie marzullo, has the latest. >> i talked with a member of the shrubber family and she said kayleigh slush's death is the most horrible thing that could ever happen. they have naughty on the funeral arrangements. >> the coroner has completed the autopsy on the three-year-old but cannot release the body to the slusher family until the district attorney says it is okay. the coroner's report is not available until late next week the she was found dead in

and the united states immigration and naturalization service. so, how was your weekend ? what weekend ? bill spent the whole time working, and i did laundry. that sounds romantic. he as preparing for a big conference in chicago. - how was your weekend ? - i ate, slept and studied for an exam. talk about boring. how about next week we go see a movie together ? sounds better than studying. actually, the studying wasn't so bad. oh, why's that ? i was going to tell you. we have a guest teacher who keeps me very interested. - he's absolutely the most fan-- - bill ! - hi, bill. - hi, bill. - hi, everybody. - what are you doing here ? i just wanted to say good-bye before i left for the airport. so i'll see you a week from friday. it's a date. and i'll call you when i get to chicago. you better. don't forget my bear. i won't. is this a business conference or a hunting trip ? - it's for my collection. - you collect stuffed animals ? -yeah. what's wrong with that ? -nothing, if you're a five year old. - rosa, what is today's special ? - chicken mole. - and what about dessert ? - i